Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Evolving Human Brains: Paleoneurology and the Fate of Middle Pleistocene41
Four-Field Co-evolutionary Model for Human Cognition: Variation in the Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic29
Statistical Inference of Prehistoric Demography from Frequency Distributions of Radiocarbon Dates: A Review and a Guide for the Perplexed25
Mark Making and Human Becoming21
Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Ecological Changes, Social Behaviour and Human Intergroup Tolerance 300,000 to 30,000 BP21
Burned Fleshed or Dry? The Potential of Bioerosion to Determine the Pre-Burning Condition of Human Remains20
Aggregates, Formational Emergence, and the Focus on Practice in Stone Artifact Archaeology19
What Stimulated Rapid, Cumulative Innovation After 100,000 Years Ago?19
Domestication as Enskilment: Harnessing Reindeer in Arctic Siberia19
Probabilistic Modelling for Incorporating Uncertainty in Least Cost Path Results: a Postdictive Roman Road Case Study17
Interpreting Past Human Diets Using Stable Isotope Mixing Models15
Scaling Laws of Paleoindian Projectile Point Design14
Defining and Characterising Clusters in Palaeolithic Sites: a Review of Methods and Constraints14
Niche Construction Theory in Archaeology: A Critical Review14
Motion and Gesture: Analysing Artistic Skills in Palaeolithic Art13
Semiotics and the Origin of Language in the Lower Palaeolithic13
Artificial Intelligence, 3D Documentation, and Rock Art—Approaching and Reflecting on the Automation of Identification and Classification of Rock Art Images13
Modeling the Evolution of Ceramic Traditions Through a Phylogenetic Analysis of the Chaînes Opératoires: the European Bronze Age as a Case Study13
Using Radiocarbon Dates and Tool Design Principles to Assess the Role of Composite Slotted Bone Tool Technology at the Intersection of Adaptation and Culture-History13
Sexual Inequalities in the Early Neolithic? Exploring Relationships Between Sexes/Genders at the Cemetery of Vedrovice Using Use-Wear Analysis, Diet and Mobility11
An Archaeology of Affect: Art, Ontology and the Carved Stone Balls of Neolithic Britain11
Sandstone Ground Stone Technology: a Multi-level Use Wear and Residue Approach to Investigate the Function of Pounding and Grinding Tools11
A Study of Fractured Proboscidean Bones in Recent and Fossil Assemblages11
Bronze Age Swordsmanship: New Insights from Experiments and Wear Analysis11
Household Inequality, Community Formation, and Land Tenure in Classic Period Lowland Maya Society10
Tracking Hunter-Gatherer Impact on Vegetation in Last Interglacial and Holocene Europe: Proxies and Challenges10
Beyond the Problem of Bone Surface Preservation in Taphonomic Studies of Early and Middle Pleistocene Open-Air Sites10
Joining the Circle: Native American Philosophy Applied to the Study of Late Archaic Shell Rings of the Southeast United States9
Red Earth, Green Glass, and Compositional Data: A New Procedure for Solid-State Elemental Characterization, Source Discrimination, and Provenience Analysis of Ochres9
Art (Pre)History: Ritual, Narrative and Visual Culture in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe9
Deconstructing Hunting Returns: Can We Reconstruct and Predict Payoffs from Pursuing Prey?8
A Lithic Provisioning Model as a Proxy for Landscape Mobility in the Southern and Middle Kalahari8
Numerical Reconstruction of Paleolithic Fires in the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc Cave (Ardèche, France)8
Investigating the Anthropic Construction of Rock Art Sites Through Archaeomorphology: the Case of Borologa, Kimberley, Australia8
Provisioning an Early City: Spatial Equilibrium in the Agricultural Economy at Angkor, Cambodia8
Investigating Isotopic Niche Space: Using rKIN for Stable Isotope Studies in Archaeology8
Materiality, Agency and Evolution of Lithic Technology: an Integrated Perspective for Palaeolithic Archaeology8
Interpreting Past Human Diets Using Stable Isotope Mixing Models—Best Practices for Data Acquisition8
Constraining the Likely Technological Niches of Late Middle Pleistocene Hominins with Homo naledi as Case Study8
Hidden Sites, Hidden Images, Hidden Meanings: Does the Location and Visibility of Motifsand Sites Correlate to Restricted or Open Access?8
Dating Medieval Masonry Buildings by Radiocarbon Analysis of Mortar-Entrapped Relict Limekiln Fuels—a Buildings Archaeology7
An Ethnological Analogy and Biogenetic Model for Interpretation of Religion and Ritual in the Past7
Diet, Mobility, Technology, and Lithics: Neolithization on the Andean Altiplano, 7.0–3.5 ka7
Population Size Limits the Coefficient of Variation in Continuous Traits Affected by Proportional Copying Error (and Why This Matters for Studying Cultural Transmission)7
Wealth and Well-being in an Ancient Maya Community7
Application of Line of Sight and Potential Audience Analysis to Unravel the Spatial Organization of Palaeolithic Cave Art7
The Art of Making Images: Technological Affordance, Design Variability and Labour Organization in the Production of Engraved Artefacts and Body Paintings in Tierra del Fuego (Southern South America)7
Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Variability of Bone Collagen to Determine the Number of Isotopically Distinct Specimens6
The Role of Functional Efficiency in the Decline of North America’s Copper Culture (8000–3000 BP): an Experimental, Ecological, and Evolutionary Approach6
The Soundscapes of the Lower Chuya River Area, Russian Altai: Ethnographic Sources, Indigenous Ontologies and the Archaeoacoustics of Rock Art Sites6
Non-Local Enemies or Local Subjects of Violence?: Using Strontium (87Sr/86Sr) and Lead (206Pb/204Pb, 207Pb/204Pb, 208Pb/204Pb) Isobiographies to Reconstruct Geographic Origins and Early Childhood Mobi6
Compression and digestion as agents of vertebral deformation in Sciaenidae, Merlucidae and Gadidae remains: an experimental study to interpret archaeological assemblages6
Art in the Making: Recent Developments in the Study of Pleistocene and Holocene Images6
Projectiles Under a New Angle: a Ballistic Analysis Provides an Important Building Block to Grasp Paleolithic Weapon Technology6
Bloodletting in Ancient Central Mexico: Using Lithic Analyses to Detect Changes in Ritual Practices and Local Ontologies6
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